Jami Attenberg

I'm pretty pro-food.

— Jami Attenberg

“I am on Team Drunk Lady, obviously.”

— Jami Attenberg

We are human beings, not ants.

— Jami Attenberg

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

— Jami Attenberg

Sometimes, things are just exercises.

— Jami Attenberg

It's good to pass on stories.

— Jami Attenberg

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

— Jami Attenberg

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.

— Jami Attenberg

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

— Jami Attenberg

“The thing that made you special is gone.”

— Jami Attenberg

“His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.”

— Jami Attenberg

My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.

— Jami Attenberg

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

— Jami Attenberg

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

— Jami Attenberg

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

— Jami Attenberg

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

— Jami Attenberg

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

— Jami Attenberg

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

— Jami Attenberg

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

— Jami Attenberg

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I…

— Jami Attenberg

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love…

— Jami Attenberg

I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you…

— Jami Attenberg

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and…

— Jami Attenberg

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a…

— Jami Attenberg

“I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about…

— Jami Attenberg

I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my…

— Jami Attenberg

“Worst parent on the planet. All he knew how to do was bark orders and walk away. He didn't understand that his…

— Jami Attenberg

“But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling…

— Jami Attenberg

“He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much…

— Jami Attenberg

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe…

— Jami Attenberg

“...if she had known just a few months before, during more innocent times, that she would feel that way for the rest…

— Jami Attenberg

“...and wasn't life full of layers and nuances, colored all kinds of shades of gray, and the way you felt about something…

— Jami Attenberg

“Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never…

— Jami Attenberg

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment,…

— Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and…

— Jami Attenberg

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and…

— Jami Attenberg

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

— Jami Attenberg

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

— Jami Attenberg